Pierre de Clérambault
Pierre de Clérambault
1651-1740
French archaeologist and Louis XIV's librarian and genealogist, who conducted the first known excavation of a medieval site. Captivated by classical antiquities and prehistoric Celtic culture, Europeans of the Enlightenment largely ignored the Middle Ages, which they viewed as a barbaric period. Attitudes gradually changed in the early eighteenth century, and articles on medieval antiquities began appearing. In this atmosphere of increasing medieval interest, Clérambault in 1727 excavated the thirteenth-century graveyard at Châtenay-Malabry in France.
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